A U.S. appeals court panel on Friday declined to delay Idaho’s scheduled execution next week of one of the nation’s longest-serving death row inmates.
Continue ReadingBy ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Buses dropped off hundreds of migrants at a San Diego bus stop instead of at a reception center that had been serving as a staging area because it ran out of local funding sooner than expected. The releases Friday of people from as far away as
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Wages, cost-of-living adjustments key issues in talks; OSU-Cascades has 38 classified employees EUGENE, Ore. (KTVZ) – On Friday morning, the Service Employees International Union Local 503 bargaining team representing 4,500 classified employees working at Oregon’s seven public universities, including OSU-Cascades, declared an impasse in contract negotiations with the schools. Here’s the full statement issued by
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — National security adviser Jake Sullivan; Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Sullivan; Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif.; Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla. ___ CBS’ “Face the Nation” — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova; Reps. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., Brian Fitzpatrick,
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The Odysseus lunar lander is sideways on the moon, Intuitive Machines, the company that built the vehicle, said during a news conference Friday. The revelation comes after Intuitive Machines had initially described Odysseus, also called “Odie” or IM-1, as “upright” in an update posted to the social media platform
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) — Fósiles recién descubiertos permitieron a los científicos revelar por completo el de un “dragón” de 240 millones de años, informaron los Museos Nacionales de Escocia (NMS, por sus siglas en inglés) en un comunicado este viernes. El reptil de cinco metros de largo, perteneciente al período Triásico en China, se identificó por
Continue ReadingBy TY O’NEIL, JOHN LOCHER and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Kayakers have been paddling in one of the driest places on Earth after a series of record rainstorms battered California’s Death Valley and replenished Lake Manly. Park Ranger Nichole Andler said Badwater Basin at Death Valley National Park,
Continue ReadingMauricio Torres (CNN) — Tres reos se fugaron de la cárcel de Cotopaxi durante la madrugada de este jueves, informaron el viernes las Fuerzas Armadas de Ecuador, que mantienen el control de las prisiones del país como parte del plan del Gobierno del presidente Daniel Noboa para frenar la violencia que se genera desde los
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon State Parks is not just a beautiful place to visit – it’s also a spectacular place to work. Oregon Parks and Recreation Department is recruiting 250 seasonal park rangers and assistants for positions across the state that range anywhere from four to nine months. The peak season is from April
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration, leaders of four Columbia River Basin tribes and the governors of Oregon and Washington celebrated on Friday as they signed papers formally launching a $1 billion plan to help recover depleted salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest. The plan, announced in December, stopped short
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A small balloon spotted flying high over the mountainous Western United States has been intercepted by a fighter jet over Utah. North American Aerospace Defense Command fighter pilots sent to investigate the balloon determined it was not maneuverable and did not present a threat to
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By Oren Liebermann and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — A balloon the US was tracking across the country has now left US airspace and was likely a “hobby balloon,” NORAD said in a statement Saturday. NORAD had initially intercepted the balloon with fighter jets but ultimately continued to track it through ground-based radar systems. “After
Continue ReadingBy Casey Tolan, Majlie de Puy Kamp and Kyung Lah, CNN (CNN) — A New Orleans street magician who has no fixed address, has never voted and claims to hold a world record in fork bending might seem like an unlikely candidate to be involved in a high-tech political scandal. But on Friday, Paul Carpenter
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hauser and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said his country had opened a new phase with Sweden during a joint press conference with Swedish counterpart Ulf Kristersson on Friday as Budapest prepares to ratify Stockholm’s long-delayed NATO bid. Hungary is the last member of the military alliance to
Continue ReadingBALDWYN, Miss. (AP) — Two National Guard members died after a helicopter crashed Friday afternoon during a training flight in northeast Mississippi. Prentiss County Sheriff Randy Tolar tells WTVA-TV that the aircraft went down in a wooded area near Baldwyn. The site is about 115 miles southeast of Memphis, Tennessee. The Mississippi National Guard says
Continue ReadingBy Whitney Burney Click here for updates on this story DETROIT (WXYZ) — A DJ in Detroit is working to keep kids off the streets. Ron Johnson, also known as DJ Jungle 313, has been on the turntables since he was a kid and he wants to now pass the knowledge and skill to the
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Adam Sandler’s deal with Netflix means pretty much doing whatever he wants, which, in the case of “Spaceman,” means traveling to the furthest reaches of space as the near-solitary star of a pretentious, message-heavy drama. Violating “Seinfeld’s” “No hugging, no learning” rule, the concept holds some interest for
Continue ReadingBy Nick Paton Walsh, Anna-Maja Rappard, Kosta Gak and Brice Laine, CNN Kherson, Ukraine (CNN) — If one man’s story encompassed all two years of Ukraine’s war you might expect it to have ended abruptly long ago. Yet Oleksandr, 38, is somehow alive, burdened with lessons from a fight he did not predict. His prosthetic
Continue ReadingBy ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer The NCAA Committee on Infractions has outlined potential penalties for rules violators in leadership positions beyond the coaching staff, up to and including school presidents. The committee met this week in Charlotte to discuss how it would implement new legislation emphasizing individual accountability. Individuals who were active or passive
Continue ReadingKEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. senators looking to crack down on the number of packages from China that enter the country duty-free are calling on President Joe Biden to take executive action. Sens. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, and Rick Scott, a Republican from Florida, are calling on Biden to
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